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Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS

Empower your developers to use their preferred open source languages. We offer many open source languages and tools—including Git, R and Python—that allow any developer to harness the power of the mainframe without having to spend months learning new skills.

Languages

Perl

Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. This port offers enhancements over other versions of Perl; it’s preconfigured and precompiled, designed to address the ASCII/EBCDIC conversion, and provides Unicode support.